Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 4, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Easy to read format Complete listings the weather o mainly High Low details on Page d5 life As a to extra reporter Brad Oswald fills in the background of television show Loni Anderson tells All in humourless Fly Ness i expands 5hy series Colorado defeats jets i bomber Battle nil great has no Battle profs score Victory mediator appointed to help break deadlock at of m a4 illegal catch nets fishermen in lays off nearly Soo workers City Cabinet time for strike to 811 a12 b16 in memorials comics diversions sports b3 3 9 saturday free press plus taxes higher in outlying areas november emergency service in crisis by Alice Krueger legislature reporter Winnipeg ambulance workers say the overnight closure of Community Hospital emergency rooms is straining service to the Point where at times theres not a single ambulance Avail Able to respond to nor is it uncommon for ambulance resources to fall to 50 per cent or less at killer gets 4 life terms by David Kuxhaus Law courts reporter a34yearold rapist and murderer was sentenced to four life sentences Stanley Pomfret murdered 16yearold Tena raped two other teenage girls and nearly killed a 19yearold the offender Here is of the worst kind of Justice Gerald Jewers said As he imposed the he ordered Pomfret to serve at least 20 years before he can apply for under the a maximum of 25 years could have been imposed before dressed in Blue prison the bearded Pomfret sat Stone faced on a wooden chair in the far Corner of the Franks skeletal remains were found by police in 1993 in a wooded 20 kilo metres East of its a Franks Georgina said outside the last two years have been i still Haven accepted the fact that Shes its believed Franks had been sexually assaulted and her Skull fractured with a baseball Pomfret was convicted of Sec on degree murder last month in her in september he pleaded guilty to two counts of aggravated sexual assault and choking to overcome jew ers yesterday imposed life sentences for each of those crimes and a 10yearsen tence for a charge of aggravated Judi corbetts son Adrian Boyd was nearly strangled to death by she had a message yesterday for the parole Board which will eventually decide if Pomfret is Ever to be dont let this Guy Loose on the streets because hell go Back and do it she Pomfret had left Boyd unconscious while he raped and tortured two aged 14 and for almost 12 the four of them had gone out to the Bush to drink Beer and smoke when police arrested Pomfret at the they found the remains of Franks who had been missing for six one might have hoped that having realized the enormity of what he did in Mur Dering Tena Franks he might have Felt some said but Here we have him Only weeks later going to the same place and doing these horrible things to these three Young Jewers said its Likely the two girls would have met the same Fate As Franks if Pom fret haunt been caught in Pomfret recorded portions of the rapes on paramedics program May expand a3 any Given they in a warning issued through their the International association of machinists and aerospace workers local employees of Winnipeg ambulance ser Call the situation unacceptable and a Clear danger to the it is our belief and firsthand experience that patients have suffered due to the closures of these emergency Union representative Ross Alcock said in a letter yesterday to the Manitoba Council of health care if the present situation Many More will suffer needlessly or Bot Tomline health care is simply not accept nip Leader Gary doer said its Clear the Filmon government must now reverse itself on the emergency Hospital closures before lives Are its time for Premier Filmon to get out of his full fetal position on this Issue and overrule his minister of health and reopen these Hospital he health minister Jim Mccrae said he was unaware of any and that hed been Given Assurance by the ambulance service that it was he said the Issue will be referred to the Emer gency services task Force review commit tee for any concern brought Forward by ser vice providers is something that deserves careful he Jake director of Winnipeg ambulance confirmed there have been times in the past month when All 10 ambulance units Are but he denied that it has put lives at continued please see fleeing the fury a Mother and her children Brave the Wrath of typhoon Angela As they evacuate to safety on Manila coastal Road the typhoon swept a wide area of the main Island of Luzon in the Philip including please see Story on Page gaming addicts hooked on volts Survey As much As blown daily by Alexandra Paul staff reporter gambling addicts put Down As much As a Day largely on volts concludes one of the first psychological profiles on gaming to be released since the Filmon government opened casinos and licensed volts in the addicts Gamble every according to the Survey by the addictions foundation of it paints a Bleak picture for approximately men and women desperate to beat their gambling the Survey was based on Calls in 199495 to the foundations 24hour hotline at a total of per cent of callers were vat with addictions to Bingo run Ning a Distant second a Mere per cent of not Only were the gamblers aware they were in they also apparently some per cent had full time jobs to support their they reported spending to a eighty per cent complained of including family woes and Friend ships lost to the social Impact of gambling addictions and the number of victims in the report is just the tip of the warned a foun Dation we dont feel everybody who should be calling is and wed like to see peo ple Call before they Are said Gerry who coordinates the foundations gambling services continued please see Calls fill in portrait of gambling addict the first profile of a typical Garft Balrig addict in Manitoba was based of Calls for help to a hotline at the addictions foundation of Manitoba from april to 1 the highlights of the for help to Stop addictive another 1 Calls were from gamblers who mistook the hotline for a help line to help them these callers wanted winning lottery ticket numbers and favorite volts Hung the statistical profile was based on 1 of the 1 problem gamblers per cent reported spending to each time they per cent reported gambling per cent had full time eighty per cent reported being in having problems with not being Able to pay their Bills and borrowing Money from family and per cent reported being men and women both favored volts Over other gambling per men liked volts in hotels and spent More Money than sixty per cent of men reported blowing a women liked volts in casinos better and spent a fraction of what men with almost half dropping each per cent of callers were Between 35 and 50 years per cent were Between 25 and just Over half of All callers were married but there were differences by men were More Likely to be victims of monster speak by Tom Blackwell Canadian press Ryan Mahaffy outside Toronto Ryan Mahaffy looked his Sisters killer Paul Bernardo straight in the Eye yesterday and told him exactly what he thought of because you murdered my you have changed my life in so Many said who burst into because of you i am an Only i have terrible nightmares and thoughts about Leslie that scare he told a emotional his Blond locks falling Over his open ended sentence a11 some people have called you a Mon Ster and i Many spectators at the hearing which heard from rape victims As Well As the families of murdered schoolgirls Leslie and Kristen ryans joined him beside the witness holding the boys hand As he finished his a professionally produced videotape traced Leslie life in snapshots and Home she had so Many so Many unfulfilled Debbie Mahaffy says on the statements from rape who hugged and wept after Bernardo was declared a dangerous offender and imprisoned were also read in court by Justice Patrick he didst just rape one woman said in her he killed the per son i i lost my my will to my Trust in other my time was spent huddled in a Cor Ner like a hunted another victim said of the months after her have you spoken your filial in Cist the Belt Medica racist is Oil e or she i Uii racist lately in most accessible Ible to advise i care a ask questions Pha Imai Awa Unest knows the most out of your ;